088.03/ Sadly, I needed to miss my favorite book sale of all time, the Bryn-Mawr "A Gym Filled With Used Books That You Can Purchase By The Box For A Set Price I Am Not Kidding" Wellsley Book Sale because it was on Purim and Shabbos. Shazbot. Next year? bmandwbooks.com/the-annual-sal…
088.04/ Yup.
Similar advice (coming from my expertise as a professional speaker): judge a rabbi/expert by how often they talk about themselves in their "lessons." If it's over 10%, that's a problem.
088.05/ The #Mets, #NYR, and #NYKnicks are on TV all the same time. Not kidding, I said #Shehechiyanu. Because it's still a pandemic and I can't take anything for granted.
088.06/ We used to describe our kids ages by milestones “they took first step/eat solid food/sleep through the night" etc. This can be done for we Middle Agers as well: last year I was “all my kids are bnei mitzvah” years old. This year? “My oldest is visiting colleges” years old
088.07/ #NachasAlert! My daughter's Torah Bowl team won the divisionals and are on their way to the final! Very proud of all the effort she put in and while the learning is its own reward, it's satisfying to compete in milchemet Torah. jewishlink.news/schools/50019-…
088.08/ #NachasAlert! Very cool: my son is part of a group that voluntarily met every Shabbas for two yrs, even over the pandemic, and it's like nothing I've ever seen. They actually are learning together as a big group of friends! It's heartwarming to see jewishlink.news/community-news…
I think it's manifestly clear that food aversions - to the point that someone will go hungry, even starve, before they're capable to eat a food - counts as 'pain.' And being incapable of eating is dangerous. And kitniyot isn't chametz
088.10/ @MalkaLHS has some astute insights into the how hashkama minyanim can be helpful for some ND conditions:
088.11/ This should be enough, no? Heck, he voted for Brett "Beery McRoofie" Kavanaugh after Collins' narcissistic speech. Hopefully she'll concern her way to voting for Judge Jackson too...
088.12/ 1000% correct. And so important to keep in mind. #Literalism will see the trees and not the forest. What @What46HasDone is pointing out is a forest: the only way we know things are happening is because the Dems Are Doing Something.
088.14/ I still technically run eparsha.com but for technical reasons (physical laws of the universe preventing me from time travel and multiple sentient clones to do the work I wish I could do) it hasn't been updated in a while.
088.17/ Speaking of the GBBO, my favorite moment that absolutely encapsulates the show is in the episode with the Babka challenge, one of the judges Prue Leith, said: “I’ve had [babka] in New York and it’s not nearly as nice as [Paul Hollywood's babka].” today.com/food/some-new-…
088.18/ "Founder's Intent" like "CRT" and "States Rights" etc. are all shorthand for racist revanchism. It's a way of skipping all the recent amendments (esp. 13-15 & 19) to recreate antebellum society.
088.20/ I write all over my books, seforim included. All. Over.
Post-it notes are great and I use every product possible (see link) I can even take a picture to preserve the page with the stickers if I want to remove them. amazon.com/dp/B07FQCCRVB/…
088.23/ Thought provoking thread by a mutual about the genre differences in adult vs YA dystopian fantasy. I especially appreciate the insight about how an adolescent revolutionary ideology can ironically lead to stasis.
088.25/ A combination of an early Shabbos because we're going to Rutgers for Shabbas dinner, and from maddening computer trouble, I'll stop now. Stay safe everyone! #ShabbatShalom
196.03/ #NachasAlert: My son has a big article (pages 4-6) in this week's Torah journal from his high school #Metzora-#HaGadol. Enjoy! drive.google.com/file/d/1uNKU5O…
195.02/ Happy #Eclipse2024 Day for all who celebrate. Here's an interesting article about the halakhic implications of an eclipse by Rabbi Dov Linzer: blogs.timesofisrael.com/solar-eclipse-…
195.03/ #Eclipse2024 My extended family went to a place of 100% totality and took this picture a few minutes ago. For me its 90% and can't be photographed (which is one reason I said shehechiyanu). Not paskening for anyone else, but for me this is a religious experience.
194.02/ #ChochmatNashim for #Shemini 5784.
@ChochmatNashim
Downloadable PDF with working links to Divrei Torah by Orthodox women scholars on the parsha and other topics of the week. #Shmini #HaChodesh drive.google.com/file/d/1bFHTfW…
193.03/ #NachasAlert: Final (so far) tally of times my son leyned Megillah seven times; 3 last night, four times today. Including once for a home-bound Shoah survivor. So proud.
192.02/ So today is #ZayinAdar and Saint Patrick's Day during Ramadan. What could go wrong?
192.03/ There's a resonance in having a fast that commemorates a community sacrifice for soldiers fighting a defensive war against raging antisemites. #TaanitEsther
191.02/ Last #MotzeiShabbatMovieNight of the season. How to top last week, and with a movie my youngest hasn't seen yet? "Fletch (1985)" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletch_(f…
191.03/ I agree with Prof. Simkovich, re: the Oscar guy.
Also, I see people wrestling to make sense of his convoluted phrasing, but I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a declaration that inherently refuses to give others the same benefit.